Sergii Bulgakov and Wassily Kandinsky: Two Visionairies of the Wisdom of God

by Antoine Arjakovsky

The artist Wassily Kandinsky and the theologian Sergii Bulgakov, two great figures of twentieth-century Russian culture, knew each other well. They became acquainted in the 1890s at Moscow University Law School, where both attended the classes of Alexander Chuprov. Even though Kandinsky was five years older than Bulgakov, they quickly became friends.

Antoine Arjakovsky

Research director at the Collège des Bernardins in Paris and president of the Association of Christian Philosophers. His forthcoming book on ecumenical metaphysics will be published by Angelico Press.

An Orthodox historian and the author of several books on Orthodox Christianity. In 2013, he published En attendant le Concile de l’Église orthodoxe (Paris: Cerf), which has been translated into Ukrainian and Russian, and Qu’est–ce que l’orthodoxie? (Paris: Gallimard) which is soon to be published in English). In October 2012, he organized with Peter de Mey and Michel Stavrou an international colloquium under the auspices of the St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute and the Centre for Ecumenical Research of the Catholic University of Leuven, in partnership with the Orthodox theological review Contacts and the Collège des Bernardins, entitled “The Forthcoming Council of the Orthodox Church: Understanding the Challenges.” The texts of the colloquium have appeared in Contacts 243 (July-September 2013) and SVTQ 60: 1-2 (2016).

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